Small Bar is no longer a drinking option for twenty somethings off Division street

Baxter Lomax

    Small Bar was a small bar on Division street that served young yuppies from Iowa who got an education and away from old family members in Iowa. Many of these bars in Chicago are outlets for alumni in Big Ten school states where most of them have to come to Chicago and enjoy the subsidized big government spending and rewarding of corporations that require jobs with college educations and lasting loan repayments. After all the big banking industry would not thrive if if was it was like the post World-War II boom and there were plenty of jobs in manufacturing and other sectors that didn't demand degrees. Many yuppies would congregate in to neighborhoods such as Wicker Park and Bucktown pushing up rents and out residents to cheap land areas West.

Many neighborhood stores and grocers would turn into drinking Meccas for the youth who had discretionary god incomes and no dependent s to spend at Toys R Us. Small bar was one of many on Division street and now it is closed. The TIF benefits that benefited young college professionals and other speculators to push put the Latin residents of Chicago's neighborhood apparently has run out and you see more of these bars close as owners and pushers of expensive craft beer are struggling. The media corporate press Chicago Tribune seemed a bit bewildered by the closing of this bar just as Chicago was learning to love craft beer. No really Chicago was learning to love craft beer as the Trib paper explained and whether this includes the low-income neighborhoods and residents of the South and West side struggling seeing social service benefits cut so money can be reallocated to rich businessmen with picky tastes in beer is unknown. Owner Phil McFarland explained that after ten years it was enough as he was moving to the next stage of life working in the marketing  and strategy work in a brewery. The former Leo Burnett agency worker likely decided that running. Small bar that was no longer subsidized by a foolish city government bending backwards to rich guys and their store front hobbies was no longer cheap. No longer cheap like the beer is expected to be these days from the nobility class of today setting the agenda for beer drinking in urban America.